washington is watching all of this very carefully. the president has just been broefed on what we are now calling the flash freeze. >> the president of course, is on a bus tour of upstate new york. he is in rochester new york today. he has been talking about college pricing so this is off topic but of course they have all of the communications gear that they need on that bus to keep the president up to speed on anything that's going on in the world including now today. this disruption over at the nasdaq. not much, the president of the united states can do about this but they always want to keep him up to speed on anything that represent any kind of disruption to the u.s. economy. bill. >> all right, thanks very much. >>> meantime, as we head toward the close, i presume nasdaq will close at the normal time. we will see as the trading progresses. the dow is in rally mode. up 77 points. six straight down days, maria, where the dow lost more than 3%. now we are in come back mode today. a gain of 79. almost back to 15,000 right now. >> i r